The cheerful Duke Dennis is walking around, holding hands with an orangutan, and getting in the car like best buddies! Bet ...

Orangutans belong to the Hominidae family, also called the great apes. They are highly intelligent and share around 96.4% of ...

As we talk, Knott’s associates are at work in the surrounding forest of Indonesia’s Gunung Palung National Park with GPS units and iPads, following orangutans in their daily wanderings ...

Vandu and Raba are two Bornean Orangutans that have spent most of their lives in captivity at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, a glaring juxtaposition from the their relatives in ...

They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA.

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...

But what are the forces that drive social transmission? A long-term study covering 18 years of data on wild orangutans ...

A male wild orangutan died after being electrocuted while hanging from an electric cable in the residential area of Palangka Raya ...

These orangutans were rescued from various threats, including hunting, illegal wildlife trade, human-wildlife conflict, and ...

Ten years ago, I set off for Borneo to study orangutans. I knew how closely related they were to humans, but when I actually experienced the orangutans first hand, I found the similarities ...

Orangutans are bought online for as little as $109. When they outgrow their homes, they can be confined to cages. Image taken by Alejo Sabugo I’m a scientist and I’d like to think a good one ...

An Australian couple are stranded on a small Indonesian island after their yacht's engine failed and the vessel was pushed onto a reef in wild weather.